Debate: Irish Gaels and Scottish history

Updated Sunday 4th January 2009

Forum member Joe J wondered why a crucial element of Scottish history gets overlooked

Why did the Irish Gaels who brought their gaelic language, culture, customs and people to Scotland (land of the Irish) get air-brushed from Scottish history.

Most Scottish people do not realise that the tartan and pipes came from Ireland ?

Copyright information

Publication details

Originally published: Sunday, 4th January 2009
Last updated on: Sunday, 4th January 2009

Copyright information

Body text - Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0: The Open University
Image 'A public meeting' - Copyright: Jupiter Images
Image 'A public meeting' - Copyright: Jupiter Images
Image 'Irish Dimension map detail' - Copyright: The Open University
Image 'A big greasy slice of vegetarian pizza. ' - Pixabay under Creative-Commons license
Image 'Civil war soldiers' - Copyright: Wark Clements
Image 'Photos.com' - Copyright: photos.com
Image 'cottage in Glencolmcille folk village, Ireland 2015' - Jenny Meegan under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
Image 'Battle scene' - Copyright: Wark Clements
Image 'John Pym' - Copyright: Wark Clements
Image 'Ellen o'Leary, Katharine Tynan and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill' - Copyright: Image of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Paul Sherwood/The Gallery Press. Others: Public Domain
Image 'Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill' - Copyright: Paul Sherwood/The Gallery Press
Image 'BBC camera' -
peprice under CC-BY-NC-SA licence
under Creative-Commons license

Tags, Ratings and Social Bookmarking

Ratings

Reload rating

Feeds

If you enjoyed this, why not follow a feed to find out when we have new things like it? Choose an RSS feed from the list below. (Don't know what to do with RSS feeds?)
Remember, you can also make your own, personal feed by combining tags from around OpenLearn.